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N10. 611,082. Patented sept. 20, |898. w. o. sHAnBoLT.

WAGON.

(Application Bled Feb. 5, 1898.)

.(Nu Model.) 4 Sheets-Sheet l.

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'INVENTOR Patented Sept. 207 |898.

BY l I) ATTGRNEY W. 0. SHADBOLT.

WAGON (Application am Fen-5, 1898.)

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No. n,082.

(No Model.)

` WITNESSES: fL// L No. 6II,082. Patented Sept. 20, |898. W. 0.SHADBOLT.

WAGON.

(Application filed, Feb. 5, 1898.)

( No Model.) 4 Sheets heet 3.

` WITNESSESI INVENTOR ///'z/ @044/ v BY ATTORNEY No. 6||,os2. Patentedsept. 20,1898. w. o. sHAnBoLT.

WAGON.

(Application led Feb. 5, 1898.) (No Model.) 4 Sheets-Sheet 4.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR @MWC/2M f il'NrTnD STATES PATENT @muon IVILLIAMOSCAR SHADBOLT, OFNFV YORK, N. Y.

WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,082, datedSeptember 20, 1898.

Application filed February 5, 1898. Serial No. 669,178. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: y

Beit known that I, WILLIAM OSCAR SHAD- BOLT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andcity and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vagons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to four-wheeled vehicles or wagons, andparticularly to dumping-wagons; and the invention resides partly in aconstruction of the wagon which adapts .it for dumping, partly in themanner of mounting the upper parts of the wagon on the front axle, andpartly in the construction and form of the body, all as will behereinafter more particularly set forth, and the novel features thereofcarefully defined in the claims.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate the invention it isrepresented as embodied in a wagon suited for collecting, transporting,and dumping garbage, although it may of course be employed for otheruses.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of thewagon and Fig. 1ft is a section at line in Fig. 1, showing the king-boltcoupling. Fig. 2 is a plan of the frame and running-gears, the body ofthe wagon being omitted. Fig. 2f is a fragmentary side view showing thebody-lock, and Fig. 2b shows the axle member detached. Fig. 3 is a rearend View of the wagon. Fig. 4. isa cross-section of the body at line @c4in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a side View, and Fig. 6 a rear view, of aslightly-modified form of the axle member of the wagon illustrated inFigs. 1,2, and 3.

Referring primarily to Figs. 1 to t of the drawings, 1 is a strongrectangular horizontal frame, and 2 is the body, pivotally mounted insaid frame at 3 near the middle of the length of the body, one of themain objects of the construction being to throw a due proportion of theweight of the load on the front wheels, as it is in an ordinarynon-dumping wagon, and at the same time to enable the body to be pivotedfor dumping at a point so well forward that the load to the rear of saidpoint will very nearly counterbalance that forward of said point. Toeffect this in a vehicle with four wheels and a relatively long body,and at the same time to maintain the proper strength and stilfness atthe rear portion of the structure, is the object of the construction ofthis rear part, which will now be described.

Under the respective side members of the frame 1 are iixed blocks orbolster-pieces 1, which rest on the rear axle members and form a part ofthe frame. The rear axle is in two like L-shaped members, one of whichis seen detached in Fig. 2l. The horizontal part 5 of this member takesunder and forms a seat for the bolster-piece 4 and has formed on it theaxle-arm, about which the rear wheel 6 turns, and the upright part 5 ofthe member is applied closely to the face of the bolster-piece and sidemember of the frame 1, having at its upper end two lateral flanges,(seen in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) which give it a T-like form or shape.This upright part 5 is embraced up to the said lateral flanges byangle-irons 5b, and it is firmly secured to the bolster-piece and frame,the former resting on the part 5, between the collar thereon and theupright part 5% This construction places .the upright parts of the axlein a vertical plane passing through the axes of the two axle-arms, sucharrangement being neoessary in order to get the maximum strength. Thebody is pivoted at 3 on a cross-beam 6 in the frame 1, and the structureis further stiffened by a cross-beam 7 between the front ends of thebolster-pieces, said piece 7 being set obliquely and just forward of theposition occupied by the bottom of the body when dumped, this positionbeing indicated by a dotted line in Fig. 1. The beam 7 may be braced byangle-irons 7a, as shown in Fig. 1.

At the front the frame 1 is supported on the front wheels 8, the framehaving the usual circle-iron 9, resting on the fifth-wheel10, and thislatter being mounted on the bolster 11 of the front axle 12. Thesefeatures are in themselves common in vehicles; but in the presentconstruction the king-bolt 13, passing down through the cross-beam 14 onthe frame, does not enter the bolster in the line of the wheel-axis, butpasses down back of the axle through a block 15, rigidly secured to therear face of the bolster. The hole inthe block 15 (see Fig. 1a) throughwhich the kingbolt passes is ared downward laterally, but not in theother direction. On the lower end of the king-bolt is a nut 5 but thisnut does not IOO fit up closelyto the block. This construction servestwo purposes: By placing the kingbolt 13 in a vertical transverse planeback of such a plane passing through the centers of the front wheels theaxle-arms of these wheels become a fulcrum of a lever, and the weight ofthe pole (not shown) which is fixed in the jaws 11a has to overcome theweight of the body bearing on the rear arm of the lever at theking-bolt, and this weight serves to hold up the pole, thus taking offthe parts the twisting strain from a heavy pole which comes from thesetting of the king-bolt in the same vertical plane as the axle. Bydaring the hole in the block l5 in a lateral direction and downward, asdescribed, the strain put upon the parts when one front wheel rides uphigher than the otheris avoided. This construction permits the frontaxle and the fifth-wheel lO to assume considerable inclination,whilc thebody and the circle-iron 9 remain level, thus avoiding a twist in thebody and undue strain on the parts. The block l5 will have, bypreference, an angle-plate 15 under it, and the king-bolt 13 will passdown through and play in a slot therein. The nut on the lower end of theking-bolt is intended mainly to keep the bolt from working upward.

The body 2 as constructed for use in transporting garbage is madewater-tight, and the bottom, at the rear end, is inclined upward at 2,so as to forni a shallow liquid-receptacle below the lip 2b, over whichthe garbage flows in dumping, and the tail-gate 16 is fitted to the rearend of the body in an inclined position, the upper edge being inclinedforward. The tail-gate is not hinged to the body, but is held up theretoby screw-clamps 1G, hinged to the body, so that they may be turned orswung aside when not in use and when in use may be brought over the edgeof the tail-gate and into operative position. At the time of dumping thetail-gate is lifted off and set aside. Vhen in place, leakage isprevented by its tight fit. There may of course be a packing material atthe joint. The forward incline of the tailgate above the lip 2l out of avertical plane causes the moisture collecting along the upright jointswhere the gate joins the body to drip and fall away by gravity into thebottom forward of the lip 2b and not to follow down and work through thejoint, This is found to be of practical importance in handling garbage,where leakage is to be carefully avoided. Garbage usually contains moreor less liquid, which settles to the bottom of the body, and thatportion of the bottom of the body below the level of the lip 2b(corresponding to the horizontal dotted line seen in Fig. l) is what isherein referred to as a liquid-receptacle, although the entire body maybe practically water-tight.

As the body, with its load, is very nearly balanced, it is necessary oradvisable to provide a means for locking the body to itssupporting-frame under normal conditions. Any simple device which willprevent the dumping of the body prematurely will serve the purpose. Thathere shown is best seen in Figs. 2, 2, and 3, and it consists of a shoulder 17 on the side of the body back of the pivot-point and convenientlyformed by fixing an angle-iron on one of the stanchions of the body. Onthe top of a side member of the frame 1 is a locking-bar 18, pivoted at18n on the frame, so that it may be swung in horizontally under theshoulder 17. The bar 18 when in position under the locking-shoulder maybe held in position by a piu 19,which is inserted in a hole in a keeper19 on the frame and extending over the bar 1S.

Figs. 5 and 6 show a construction where the upright members 5" of theaxle are forked. These views also show these members as applied to theouter face of the frame l. By upright member as here employed withrespect to the attaching member of the axle-arm is meant a constructionwhere the axle-arm proper projects out free from the lowest part of amember which is upright and applied to thc face of the wagon-frame andin which the frame is wholly inside or between the hind wheels, so thatthe latter may be slipped on and off the respective fixed arms. It iswell understood that cranked axles are not new` and that hind wheelsprovided with integral journals at both sides have been mounted injournal-bearings on the bottoms of double side frames, the wheels beingbetween the double members of the frame. This construction I do notclaim, nor is it adapted for use with ordinary wheels and axles forwagons. The body of my wagon is a single or unitary structure andextends back beyond the axes of the rear wheels.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A four-wheeleddumping-wagon having its body pivotally mounted at about the middle ofits length in a strong frame, and having its hind wheels wholly exteriorto said frame and mounted on outwardly-projecting axle-arms, each ofwhich has an upright attaching member secured to the side of said frame,said axlearms being separate, and the dumping-body extending back beyondthe axes of the hind wheels, substantially as set forth.

2. A dumpingwagon comprising a strong, rectangular, substantiallyhorizontal frame provided with fixed blocks or bolster-pieces 4, a pairof front wheels and their axle under the front end of said frame, a pairofhind wheels, mounted on separate axle-arms each arm having an uprightattaching member extending up to and secured to the face of said frameabove the bolster-piece, and a body pivotally mounted inside of saidframe and adapted to dump between the said hind wheels, substantially asset forth.

3. A dumping-wagon comprising a strong rectangular frame, a pair offront wheels and their axle under the front end of said frame, separateaxle-arms for the hind wheels, each IOO IIO

arm having an upright member fixed to the inner face of the side memberof the frame and the arm on which the wheel turns projeeting outwardlyunder said side member so that the wheel may be slipped thereon, and thehind wheels, on said arms exterior to the frame, substantially as setforth.

4. The combination in a wagon, of a strong frame 1, a body mountedpivotally in said frame at about the middle of its length, two axle-arms5, each provided with an integral, upright, laterally-branched, securingmember 5, fixed to the inner face of a side mennber of the frame and thearm 5 projecting outwardly from the frame, the rear wheels 6 on saidarms exterior to the frame, and the front wheels and their axle,substantially as set forth.

5. A wagon having a bolster on the front axle, a fifth-wheel on saidbolster, a block secured to the rear face of said bolster, said blockhaving in it a flared socket to receive the king-bolt, and the saidking-bolt, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

6. A Wagon provided with a body which is substantially rectangular incross-section and has a flat bottom the rear part of which has aslightly-upward slope toward the rear to a discharging-lip 2b, whereby ashallow liquidreceptacle is formed in the body, the rear end of thebody, above said lip, being sloped or inclined forward and provided witha tailgate 16, whereby said tail-gate has a moderate inclination forwardfrom a vertical plane, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

7. In a dumping-wagon for garbage, the combination with the frame andrunninggears, of a body 2, pivotally mounted on said running-gears andhaving an upwardly-sloping rear portion 2a at its bottom to form aliquid-receptacle in the body, said body being sloped or inclinedforward and upward at its rear end above the discharging-lip 2b, and atail-gate 16 closing said rear end, substantially as set forth.

8. In a dumping-wagon for garbage, the combination with the frame, thewheels thereunder, and the separate axle-arms for the rear wheels fixedto the sides of the Vframe above the axes of the wheels, of the body 2,pivotally mounted in the frame near its middle and having anupwardly-sloping rear portion 2fL at its bottom, said body being slopedforward and upward at its rear end, and a tail-gate closing said rearend, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 3d day ofFebruary, 1898, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLIAM OSCAR SI'IADBOLT.

Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, PETER A. Ross.

